ATI has released the 8.29.6 version of its proprietary Linux drivers, with the announcement that the 9000, 9100, and 9200 IGP and Mobility Radeon chipsets are no longer supported by the new version. Radeon 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, and 9250 devices are also dropped from support. Thankfully, these models are supported in 2D/3D mode by the open source DRI driver.
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Member since:2005-07-08
This is a pity but unfortunaly very common.
One of my computers is a Toshiba 4070CDT with a DX5 level graphics card and with OpenGL 1.0 support.
When I bought it, it came with Win98, which I quickly changed into a dual boot machine.
When Win2000 was launched, Trident said it wouldn't be supporting the card on the new Windows. So I was left with 2D acceleration. No 3D anymore.
And this will be always the problem with closed drivers in any OS.
Any time that the manufacter decides not to support a card, or worse not to support a certain kernel release, then we are left on the dark with unusable hardware.
RE[2]: This is unacceptable..
Member since:2006-04-21
Making headway onto business desktops is the best way of making headway onto home desktops; platforms like the Amiga and Mac were much better for home desktops until way into the late 90's, but the Amiga went bust in 94 due to the impact of the PC on the business desktop (which would have happened even if Commode had not had crap management).
Member since:
2006-01-08
People tend to give up easily. I promoted Linux 4 years ago (I did before, and do now, but by this time I organised a big LIP, and was more active) and it was further from being an alternative on the desktop.
When I started using the IRC people I met were all into trying different OSs, Linux, *BSD, etc. Today a lot of people in the Messenger generation ain't into other OSs, they got Windows with the computer their parents bought, and it serves them enough. Old school people and people influenced by these are the users and new users of most different OSs. Of course there's always people on the search to move away from Microsoft, but the times are different, so some marketing by other OSs work on these people, we can see that by watching people acquiring Apple hardware.
Linux is ready for my desktop, as for a lot of people's desktop. In my view, it requires the user to be interested on the software, and the underlying OS, but it is usable by people who aren't at all interested. Some people are completely against learning something different from Microsoft software, those are difficult to introduce to Linux, even if it is easier, free and free.
The "fight" is not on showing that Linux is ready for the desktop, it is on educating people to Open Standards so they know how and why to ask for all those codecs and plugins and drivers missing a completely legal and/or stable solution on alternative OSs.
Edited 2006-09-21 11:00